NEARCHUS: Ηouse fire deaths for 2 children..[ 1048 ]

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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Ηouse fire deaths for 2 children..[ 1048 ]

Youth held over house fire deaths

"Evening Standard"24.04.10

A 17-year-old youth has been arrested in connection with a house fire which killed a five-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy, police said.

The youngsters died after the fire, which police said was suspicious, ripped through the property in Buxton, Derbyshire.

The mother of the children, named locally as 23-year-old Fiona Adams, escaped from the property on Friday night with an eight-month baby. They are both in hospital after having suffered severe burns.

The children were named by locals as Niamh, five, and Cayden, two.

Neighbours arrive with flowers at the scene of a fire in Buxton in which two children died

Neighbours arrive with flowers at the scene of a fire in Buxton in which two children died

Assistant Chief Constable Steve Cotterill said police had been called to the house on Edale Way after reports of noise and nuisance in the garden. He said nothing was found when officers attended.

He said the incident had been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Emergency services were called to the house just after 11.45pm last night, he said.

It is believed Fiona had jumped to a trampoline in the garden with her eight-month-old baby, a spokesman said.

Mr Cotterill said: "A 23-year-old woman and her eight-month-old baby managed to jump to safety from a rear bedroom window. They both were taken to hospitals in Manchester suffering from burns.

"The mother is currently in a specialist burns unit and the baby has since been transferred to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Tragically two other children, a five-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy died when they were unable to escape from the property."

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